LETTERS: Obamacare anything but affordable

I was mildly amused by the new poll results showing California voters have record support for Obamacare [“Obamacare support in California grows” News, Aug.19], but then I read the statistics: 56 percent of those 1,535 registered voters called in this field poll support the Obamacare program, but 9 of 10 in the Inland Empire are subsidized by it.

Statewide, over 80 percent are being subsidized by the taxpayers.

It is easy to like what you get cheap or even for free with the massive expansion of the Medi-Cal system. That federal promise made Gov. Jerry Brown very excited in 2013 about setting up the first state exchange.

He could not foresee what would happen next with the massive increase in premiums for those who pay their own way. Next year comes another hit. This is a boondoggle worse than Brown’s bullet train.

I used to have a $580-per-month premium on our PPO for my husband and me, but January 2014 changed that to a $1,124-per-month EPO Bronze plan under the new law. That costs $14,000 per year.

I wish they would have contacted me for the poll, but I work until 7 p.m.

You can only spend other people’s money for a certain period of time, even in California.

Tax revenues in California are down by 11 percent just in the first quarter of 2014.

We readers need a full two-page forum to shed light on the problems of those families in Southern California who are not at all happy with Obamacare, and we need to vent our grievances now!

Rita Sandor

Corona

Ferguson incident bias

Call me confused about Ferguson.

What I do not understand is this: Whenever there is an incident with the police being at fault in some confrontation, it seems everyone has their cellphones out filming the incident.

Here, we have not only an incident, but a fight and a shooting ending in Michael Brown’s death.

In the middle of a Saturday afternoon, a white police officer fights with and shoots a young black man who allegedly has just committed a strong-arm robbery that’s on surveillance tape and only one video of the incident surfaces? And that video indicates the opposite of what witnesses said? I don’t believe it.

Could it be that no videos are being given to the investigators because they back up Officer Darren Wilson’s account of what happened? Just wondering.

Ed Curtis

Yucaipa

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